Tag Archives: iPhonECG

You may recall my previous reporting on the incredible iPhonECG (subsequently re-named the iPhone ECG) which caused quite a stir in the medical and gadget blogosphere. It's the third-most visited page in the history of the EMS 12-Lead blog (behind the lead placement charts and the notice that the 572 pound spokesman for the Heart […]

Here's an awesome new invention by Seattle-based AliveCor. The iPhonECG turns the iPhone 4 into a wireless, clinical quality cardiac event monitor! This is an invention that I have been waiting for! The special case and app will retail for under $100.00 U.S.D. and makes its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las […]

Ben WallerWhy do we send so many people to a cardiac arrest?I am also a Battalion Chief in Tom's system. In addition to the AHA bullets he mentioned regarding high-quality CPR, our response is designed to provide fatigue-free CPR by sending enough people so that no one does CPR for more than 2 consecutive minutes. As for science, we believe strongly in it, but we also…
2016-12-08 11:29:19

Vince DiGiulioNo, doubling the paper speed will not reveal hidden P-wavesGreat tip! It's not much of an option prehospital, but one more thing I'll do when I'm in the ED and a patient has persistent tachycardia is look at the graphic trend of the patient's heart rate. Reentrant tachycardias will show a stable horizontal line (steady rate), often with a fairly abrupt onset/offset, while sinus…
2016-12-07 06:58:16

Vince DiGiulio59 Year Old Female: Intermittent Head Pain (Conclusion)Thanks! There's a couple of reasons why V7-9 might have been negative here: 1) Not all "inferoposterior" STEMI's show ST-elevation in V7-V9. Sometimes the ST-depression we see in V2 and V3 is reciprocal to the inferior STEMI and not really caused by posterior injury. 2) You'll notice that there is only subtle ST-depression in V3…
2016-12-07 06:55:27

Cardiac Care Show - Episode 1: Mechanical CPR - ECG Medical TrainingAdvanced Airway Management – Should Paramedics Be Intubating?[…] in the Resuscitation group on Facebook and the #FOAMed community on Twitter. Alongside tracheal intubation, response times, and fire-based EMS, this is one of the most controversial topics in prehospital […]
2016-12-04 18:26:57